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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."

"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
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"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."

"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."

"When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term."

"I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices."
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